Apple has now included Postfix instead of sendmail in Panther client and server. Here are the steps you need to do and watch out for if you want to enable this MTA on your client machine.
1. Edit the MAILSERVER=-NO- line in /etc/hostconfig. Change it to read MAILSERVER=-YES- or -AUTO-. Save and exit the file.
2. Open up /etc/postfix/main.cf, and edit these lines to reflect your setup. These are examples from my setup; yours might be different.
â LINE 67: myhostname = pb.ljs-world.com
â LINE 75: mydomain = ljs-world.com
â LINE 91: myorigin = $mydomain
â LINE 105: inet_interfaces = all
â LINE 152: mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain
â LINE 239: mynetworks_style = subnet
â LINE 253: mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/23, 127.0.0.0/8
Save your work, and exit the file.
3. Open up /etc/postfix/master.cf, and uncomment line 77 -- change #smtp inet n - n - - smtpd to smtp inet n - n - - smtpd. Save and exit the file.
After a reboot or a postfix (re)start, the postfix MTA will be running. (sudo start postfix)


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Then in cron, add a line like
MAILTO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

This will also allow you to use localhost as a SMTP, but some ISP's mail server won't accept your email for fear you are a spammer.
You could put a relay line in /etc/postfix/main.cf that will help.


relayhost = smtp.yourisp.com

..lj

On Feb 16, 2005, at 08:09, David Lowe wrote:

I'm generally happy with Mail.app, but i do want to enable localhost mail such as from crontab. Is postfix the only/best way to achieve that?




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